NextDigest, the San Francisco-based parent company of StartupDigest, said yesterday that it has raised $390,000 in new financing to expand its network of weekly e-mail newsletters focusing on events in the Web and Internet startup sector. Equity investments from 500Startups, Charles Hudson, Tim Trampedach, Marco Magnocavallo, Joshua Baer, and Ron Gutman brought in $190,000 of the total, while the Kauffman Foundation has provided an additional $200,000 in sponsorship funds. The company’s newsletters on startups, mobile and social-media technology, gaming, and other sectors are available in 14 cities, including Austin, Boston, Boulder, Detroit, New York, San Diego, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, and Seattle. “You could spend all day scanning through twitter, Facebook, Quora, RSS, and every other service all day…or you can have your information hand-picked by someone who knows that industry well and delivers it directly to you,” said NextDigest founder and CEO Chris McCann. “This is what we are doing with NextDigest for the fastest growing tech verticals.”
Author: Wade Roush
Between 2007 and 2014, I was a staff editor for Xconomy in Boston and San Francisco.
Since 2008 I've been writing a weekly opinion/review column called VOX: The Voice of Xperience. (From 2008 to 2013 the column was known as World Wide Wade.)
I've been writing about science and technology professionally since 1994. Before joining Xconomy in 2007, I was a staff member at MIT’s Technology Review from 2001 to 2006, serving as senior editor, San Francisco bureau chief, and executive editor of TechnologyReview.com. Before that, I was the Boston bureau reporter for Science, managing editor of supercomputing publications at NASA Ames Research Center, and Web editor at e-book pioneer NuvoMedia.
I have a B.A. in the history of science from Harvard College and a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT. I've published articles in Science, Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Technology and Culture, Alaska Airlines Magazine, and World Business, and I've been a guest of NPR, CNN, CNBC, NECN, WGBH and the PBS NewsHour. I'm a frequent conference participant and enjoy opportunities to moderate panel discussions and on-stage chats.
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